Re: Portupgrade -af question

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 14:15:31 -0700
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 12:34:51PM -0700, Zoltan Frombach wrote:
> >Yes. Wouldn't it be a nice feature for "portupgrade -P" to install the
> >port instead of the package if any non-defaults were defined in
> >pkgtools.conf?
> 
> If you really want to add this to portupgrade, it should be optional, 
> though. Because someone might have a broken compiler or something and just 
> wants to install a binary package quickly. In that case it should be 
> possible to force a binary package installation regardless of what's inside 
> the pkgtools.conf file. Don't you agree? 

'portupgrade -PP' can still be used for that.

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-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Wed Oct 27 2004 - 19:15:42 UTC

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